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Joshua Topolsky, Editor-in-chief of The Verge, had the opportunity of trying out a pair of glasses under Project Glass by Google. What seemed like an exclusive project for Google to make an augmented reality come to light is a little more serious than we thought. At this years Google I/O event they announced a pair of these glasses that would be available for Google developers at a price of $1500 with them being released early 2013.  Josh briefly touched on his experience: The experience is not all that different from those bulky head-mounted displays that can be worn to see a full HD video without an actual TV in front of you, though the screen image is much smaller, and only occupies one side of your vision. There is sound emanating from the device, though there’s no in-ear component, and you have to cup your hand over your ear to get any reasonable volume out of the Glass headset. It was, however, incredibly light, and can also be worn over glasses. Additionally, during the event Sergey stated that the company had been in talks with both standard eyeglass and sunglass makers, and that there were variations of Glass with slightly different form factors. Google is serious about Project Glass being developed for consumers to buy someday. Augmented reality is ready to deploy, more than ever today, by all the increasing amount of data being produced by people for their personal lives. All we need is a device to make sense of it all and well more data, testing, and analyzing. High-res

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Joshua Topolsky, Editor-in-chief of The Verge, had the opportunity of trying out a pair of glasses under Project Glass by Google.

What seemed like an exclusive project for Google to make an augmented reality come to light is a little more serious than we thought. At this years Google I/O event they announced a pair of these glasses that would be available for Google developers at a price of $1500 with them being released early 2013. 

Josh briefly touched on his experience:

The experience is not all that different from those bulky head-mounted displays that can be worn to see a full HD video without an actual TV in front of you, though the screen image is much smaller, and only occupies one side of your vision.

There is sound emanating from the device, though there’s no in-ear component, and you have to cup your hand over your ear to get any reasonable volume out of the Glass headset. It was, however, incredibly light, and can also be worn over glasses.

Additionally, during the event Sergey stated that the company had been in talks with both standard eyeglass and sunglass makers, and that there were variations of Glass with slightly different form factors.

Google is serious about Project Glass being developed for consumers to buy someday. Augmented reality is ready to deploy, more than ever today, by all the increasing amount of data being produced by people for their personal lives. All we need is a device to make sense of it all and well more data, testing, and analyzing.

(via thisistheverge)